Prepositions: Fix 8 Common Errors with the F.U.N. method!

Aug 14, 2023

Prepositions: Fix 8 Common Errors with the F.U.N. method!

Test your prepositions of time and place with F.U.N.! Have you worked here SINCE three years or FOR three years? Do you arrive IN a city or ON a city? Is your exam AT Monday or ON Monday? Find your preposition errors and follow up with a detailed lesson on the ones you get wrong. A great learning method for serious English learners.

Take the quiz here: https://www.engvid.com/common-preposi…

All the lessons:

1. 1:30 Arriving AT, ON, IN: https://www.youtu.be/4H7VpBwYPOE
2. 3:35 When NOT to use prepositions: https://www.youtu.be/J0MYHI3R5OE
3. 4:43 AT, ON, IN with TIME: https://www.youtu.be/G01SFcou6P4
4. 6:10 AT, ON, IN with ADDRESSES:    • English Grammar - Prepositions to say…
5. 7:38 SINCE \u0026 FOR    • English Grammar - SINCE \u0026 FOR
6. 9:26 DURING \u0026 WHILE    • Confused Words - DURING \u0026 WHILE
7. 10:58 IN \u0026 ON with MEDIA    • English Prepositions: IN or ON?
8. 12:40 TO \u0026 AT    • Learn English Prepositions: TO or AT?

Content

0 -> Hi.

1 -> I'm Rebecca from engVid.

2.32 -> In this lesson, you're going to learn prepositions with "fun".

6.48 -> Why "fun"?

7.92 -> Because "f" stands for "find out what's wrong", "u" stands for "understand how to correct

15.6 -> it", and "n" stands for "nail it" or "master it with practice".

20.68 -> Okay?

21.68 -> In this lesson, I'll show you how to do all of those things for prepositions of time and

27.64 -> place.

28.64 -> So, this is a special kind of lesson.

30.56 -> This is what we call a "diagnostic lesson".

33.08 -> It helps you to diagnose or to know what's right and what's wrong, because sometimes

39.36 -> you're using different prepositions, but you're not really sure if it's right or wrong, and

44.84 -> other times you're using it and you're sure it's right, but it's actually wrong, and you

48.96 -> don't want to find out in an exam or some other important situation that it's actually

53.8 -> the wrong preposition.

54.96 -> So, it's a good idea to find out right here.

58.72 -> Okay?

59.72 -> All right.

60.72 -> So, let's get started.

61.72 -> So, what we have here is I have eight sentences, and you have to choose between different prepositions.

67.64 -> Now, these are not just eight sentences, these are also links to separate lessons on each

74.68 -> and every one of these points, so that in case you get it wrong, I will refer you to

80.76 -> the lesson that I have, a full lesson on that particular point.

85.16 -> Okay?

86.16 -> So, let's get started and see how you're doing.

89.52 -> Number one.

90.52 -> "When did you arrive _____ London?"

94.04 -> So, here, you have to choose between "in" or "on".

99.6 -> "When did you arrive _____ London?"

104.92 -> Okay.

108.04 -> That's the right answer.

111.04 -> When did you arrive in London?

114.44 -> Okay?

116 -> That's the correct answer.

117 -> All right?

118 -> Got it?

119 -> When did you arrive in London?

121.28 -> Why in London?

122.28 -> Okay?

123.28 -> Again, if you watch my lesson on this subject about arriving, you'll see that we talk about

129.32 -> three areas.

130.32 -> I'm going to show you here, just quickly.

133.56 -> We use "arrive in" to talk about cities and countries, so we say "Arrive in London", "Arrive

141.04 -> in England", okay?

142.52 -> "Arrive in France", "Arrive in Los Angeles", okay?

146.92 -> Cities, countries.

149.32 -> We say "arrive at" when we're talking about specific places.

153.76 -> For example, "Arrive at the Hilton Hotel", "Arrive at Heathrow Airport", okay?

158.84 -> When we have the name of the particular place, okay, or even "at the hotel", "at the airport",

165.8 -> okay?

166.8 -> And "on" we don't really use so much, it's more as expressions.

170 -> So, "Arrive on time", "Arrive on schedule", okay?

175.08 -> So here, we were talking about London, which is a city, so we needed "Arrive in London".

180.8 -> Okay?

181.8 -> Got it?

182.8 -> But again, if you've got it wrong, not a problem.

185.8 -> Watch that lesson, okay?

187.72 -> There will be links underneath, and you can go to that lesson and really watch it in full,

194.08 -> master it so you don't have to keep making the same mistake again and again, okay?

198.72 -> Watch it once carefully, master it, understand it, and then do the quiz, do whatever you

204.52 -> need to do so that after that, you won't have an issue with that kind of preposition again,

210.4 -> okay?

211.4 -> That's the way to master it, and that's the way to have fun with prepositions.

215.48 -> Okay.

216.52 -> Number two, "I'll call her _______ next week."

220.76 -> Now, your choice is between the preposition "in" or no preposition.

227.48 -> So, which is it?

229.92 -> "I'll call her _______ next week."

233.84 -> Okay?

234.84 -> So, the correct answer is "I'll call her next week", so we need no preposition.

245.6 -> So, there are some times, believe it or not, when we don't need a preposition, and these

251.9 -> are four of those words, okay?

253.72 -> When we're talking about something like next week, next month, next year, okay?

259.2 -> Next season, next semester, or last, or every week, or each week, okay?

268.04 -> So, anything that has "next", "last", "every", or "each", before that, you need no preposition.

276.68 -> Sometimes you don't have to work hard to figure out which preposition, you just have to remember

281.04 -> that you need no preposition, okay?

283.8 -> Alright.

285.04 -> Number three, "My exam is _______ Monday."

289.52 -> Now, your choice is between "at" or "on", okay?

294.84 -> "My exam is _______ Monday."

299.24 -> So, what's the right answer?

303.04 -> "My exam is _______ on Monday."

309.16 -> Okay?

310.16 -> Why?

311.16 -> Alright.

312.16 -> Let's look over here for a quick review, but again, there is a complete lesson on this

317 -> subject, and this is like, I think, the most common question when it comes to prepositions.

323.44 -> This particular one of "at", "on", and "in", okay?

326.96 -> So, as a quick review, "at" we use for very specific times.

333 -> At 7 o'clock, at noon, at midnight, at 7.30, okay?

338.12 -> Very specific.

339.36 -> "On" is a little bit wider for one day or one date.

344.44 -> So, on Sunday, on January 1st, on New Year's Day, okay?

350.56 -> Like that.

351.56 -> And "in" is the widest, so here we can include in October, in 1975, in the summer, things

360.44 -> like that, okay?

362.28 -> So, that's the basic rule here.

364.68 -> So, again, here we were talking about Monday, so we're saying "My exam is on Monday."

370.6 -> Alright?

371.6 -> Good.

372.6 -> Number four, "They live _______ Main Street", so do we say "at" or "on"?

381.88 -> "They live _______ Main Street."

387.2 -> "They live", okay, stay with me, "on Main Street", okay?

396.68 -> On Main Street.

397.92 -> So, why?

399.92 -> Let's look.

400.92 -> If...

402.56 -> If you had a number, okay, if you had the actual address, then we would say, "I live

407.92 -> at 14 Main Street."

411.32 -> But if you don't have the number and you only have the name of the street, or the road,

415.48 -> or the avenue, or the boulevard, or whatever, then you say "on", okay?

420.72 -> On Main Street.

421.72 -> So, "at 14 Main Street", "on Main Street", or if you just had the city, as I explained

428.8 -> here, then you say "in Chicago", or "in America", okay?

433.44 -> Or "in Japan", and so on.

435.6 -> Alright?

436.6 -> So, that's what you choose when you're talking about addresses and places, so there's a special

443.04 -> lesson where I really focus on those, like when you're describing where you live, because

448.12 -> a lot of people get confused, you know, "in this street", "on this street", "floor", "on

452.92 -> this floor", "in this floor", so all of that I explain in the lesson about prepositions

457.02 -> to do with where you live, okay?

459.16 -> Alright.

460.16 -> Number five.

461.16 -> "I've worked here _____ three years."

465.76 -> Now your choices are "for" or "since".

470.6 -> "I've worked here _____ three years."

476.76 -> This one is confused by lots of students.

479.4 -> I think in different languages it doesn't always work this way, so a lot of students

483.84 -> get it mixed up.

484.84 -> So, what do you think it is?

487.24 -> "I've lived here", or sorry, "I've worked here for", for three years, okay?

497.4 -> So why is the answer "for three years"?

501 -> Because we use "for" followed by a period of time, okay?

507.2 -> For three years, for three months, for three days, okay?

511.24 -> Time period.

512.24 -> But we use "since" plus a point in time, so since November, since 19 - since to the year

521.64 -> 2012, okay?

523.96 -> Since the summer.

524.96 -> So, "since" plus a point in time, but "for" plus a period of time, okay?

531.08 -> So here, it's for three years.

533.88 -> It's a period of time, a length of time, right?

537.44 -> But if now, if I want to say since 2014, okay, then it's from the point in time when something

546.56 -> began.

547.56 -> So, that's something that a lot of students get mixed up, so please watch that lesson

551.96 -> if you had that one wrong.

553.52 -> It's not a problem.

554.6 -> This is to tell you what's wrong, okay?

556.68 -> This is to help you to know, and to improve, and to master it with fun, okay?

561.72 -> Alright.

562.72 -> Number six, blank the concert, it started raining.

567.68 -> Now, your choices are "during" or "while", okay?

576 -> Blank the concert, it started raining.

579.2 -> So, which is it?

582.44 -> The correct answer is "during", okay?

588.92 -> During the concert, it started raining.

591.32 -> So, why "during" and not "while", do you know why?

595.92 -> Okay, so let's look over here.

599.76 -> We use "during" plus a noun, like here, during the concert, okay?

606.8 -> During the concert, during the show, during the movie, during the class, during the lesson,

613.56 -> during the lecture, okay?

615 -> Alright?

616 -> Some kind of a noun, okay?

618.36 -> But "while" we use plus a clause, okay, a dependent clause.

622.84 -> So, if I were to change this sentence to use "while", I would have to say something like

628.04 -> "While the concert was going on", while the concert was going on, okay?

634.24 -> Now, you have a subject, you have a verb, but it's not a complete sentence, so it becomes

638.96 -> something called a dependent clause.

642.36 -> Then you would use "while", but if you don't have a subject and a verb, and you just have

647.2 -> a noun, right, like here, then you would say "During the concert, it started raining",

653.8 -> okay?

654.8 -> But again, if you're unsure or you want a little more clarification on that, go watch

658.76 -> that lesson, okay.

661.32 -> Number seven.

662.32 -> "I read it _______ the internet.

667.16 -> I read it in _______" or "on", okay?

673.4 -> Think about it.

674.4 -> "I read it _______ the internet."

678.04 -> So, the correct answer is "I read it on", okay, "on the internet".

688.24 -> Why?

689.24 -> Is there a way to tell?

690.68 -> Are we just guessing here?

692.44 -> Actually, I figured out a way and I made a lesson on it for you to know about that kind

697.16 -> of thing.

698.16 -> So, it's like this, and this is generally true, okay?

701.84 -> So, there's always a viewer who leaves us a comment that says "What about this situation?"

707 -> and then that situation is always an exception, but the rule I'm telling you applies most

712.24 -> of the time, okay?

713.48 -> So, it's like this, "in", okay, we use when we're talking about paper.

720.08 -> For example, "I read it in the newspaper", "I read it in a magazine", "I read it in a

725.04 -> book", "I read it in a report", something that's physically paper, made of paper, okay?

731.08 -> But if it's on some kind of electronic device, or like here, on the internet, or we could

738.28 -> say "I read it on my laptop", "I read it on my cell phone", okay?

743 -> "I read it on the computer", so when it's something electronic, usually we're saying

747.68 -> "on", and when it's something paper, more traditional technology, we're saying "in",

753.28 -> okay?

754.28 -> So, that's a way for you to differentiate, but again, if you want a full clarification

758.84 -> of that, go watch that lesson, okay?

761.52 -> Alright.

762.52 -> Number eight, "We met _______ the airport."

766.52 -> Now, your choices are "to" or "at".

771.8 -> "We met _______ the airport."

775.44 -> So, what's the right answer?

779 -> "We met at the airport.", okay?

785.84 -> "We met at the airport."

788.12 -> What's the difference?

789.12 -> Okay?

790.12 -> Nothing written down here right now.

791.12 -> So, again, I have a lesson about "to" and "at", and what I'm explaining there is that

795.52 -> "to" is talking about movement, okay?

798.76 -> For those of you who watched that lesson, you probably remember me going like this.

801.56 -> "To" is movement, and "at" is that you talking about a location, okay?

807.28 -> So here, are we talking about movement or are we talking about location?

812.08 -> We're talking about location, "at the airport".

815.56 -> But if we said, "We drove _______ the airport", now driving is like a movement, right?

823.08 -> It's a direction.

824.08 -> So, then we would say, "We drove to the airport", and "We arrived at the airport", or "We met

831.44 -> at the airport", okay?

832.76 -> So, again, that's the difference between "to" for movement and "at" for location, alright?

839.28 -> So, how did you do on all of those?

842 -> I hope you did well.

843.6 -> And I also hope, if you didn't do well, that you learned a lot, because now you know exactly

848.04 -> what you need to work on and where you're okay.

851.44 -> And also, even when you got it right, if you just guessed, it's good to really understand

855.8 -> it so that you can nail it.

858 -> And again, "nail it" is an idiom, which means master it.

861.12 -> Really get it completely right.

863.32 -> And enjoy learning English, because the more you enjoy yourself, the more fun you're going

867.64 -> to have, the more you're going to learn, and the more you're going to improve, okay?

872.64 -> Alright.

873.64 -> So, thanks very much for watching.

875.64 -> Please go to our website at www.engvid.com to do a quiz on these, okay?

883.08 -> And again, there will be links to each one of these lessons.

885.76 -> In case you got them wrong, go check it out.

888.2 -> Spend some time.

889.2 -> You already invested in this, so might as well follow it up with what you really need,

893.04 -> okay?

894.04 -> And subscribe to my channel so I can keep giving you lots of other hints about how to

898.2 -> learn English faster, okay?

900.66 -> Thanks very much for watching.

901.66 -> Bye for now.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutZFSXfgYs